Stretching the Web - instructions
Step 1 – Scoring your policy
In order to create a web for your policy, you must first generate the policy’s ‘score’ for each question in the Impact Assessment. You can assign scores to the questions at any stage of the policy process, but it is especially useful to do so at an early stage, when your policy still has many options open to it.
Answering the questions works best as part of a team session – why not also include key stakeholders or partners?
Step 2 – Drawing the web
When you have discussed and generated your policy’s score for each question, fill in the appropriate checkboxes.
You can choose to leave a question blank if you need to. The model will ignore any question you do not answer and the web will not be broken; however, you should aim to answer every question by the end of the policy process.
Once you click ‘submit’, your policy web will be drawn.
Step 3 – Identifying ‘bites’ in the web
The visual representation of the impact of your policy or project is shown in the form of a web. The bigger the web, the larger your policy’s contribution is to sustainable development.
The key task now is to identify the ‘bites’ out of your web – the questions or groups of questions for which your policy had a low score. These are the areas of your policy web that need ‘stretching’. If there are no ‘bites’ in your web, perhaps you can see areas where you could increase the size of the web even more.
Page last modified: 20 September 2007